Jimmy Carter is inaugurated as the President of United States. The precursor to the GPS system in use today is started by US Department of …
1977
Jimmy Carter is inaugurated as the President of United States. The precursor to the GPS system in use today is started by US Department of defense. Elvis Presley Dies from a heart attack aged 42. Star Wars opens in cinemas, first Apple II computers go on sale, TV Mini Series “Roots” is aired, First commercial flight on the Concord, Elvis Presley Dies at the age of 42, NASA space shuttle first test flight, UK Jubilee celebrations, Roman Polanski is arrested and Charged in pedophilia case, Alaskan Oil Pipeline completed, New York City Blackout lasts for 25 hours Quebec adopts French as the official language. President Carter grants pardon to American Draft dodgers of the Vietnam War Period.
Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, himself a government paid insider, exposes the CIA’s secret Operation Mockingbird. He wrote: “More than 400 American journalists … in the past twenty-five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters…. In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.
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Two Indonesian billionaires come to Arkansas. Mochtar Riady and Liem Sioe Liong are close to Indonesian President, General Suharto. Riady is looking for an American bank to buy. Riady's agent is Jackson Stephens, who also brokers the arrival of BCCI to this country and steers BCCI's founder, Hassan Abedi, to Bert Lance. Apparently because of pressure from Indonesia, Riady withdraws his bid to buy Lance's 30% ...
